escudeiro

== Galician == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese escudeiro, escudeyro, from Late Latin scūtārius, from Latin scūtum (“shield”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /eskuˈðejɾo̝/ === Noun === escudeiro m (plural escudeiros) (dated) shield maker (dated) squire (dated) a nobleman of inferior rank who served a knight, a churchman, or another nobleman 1414, in the tombstone of a nobleman: Aquí jaz jan feyjoo escudeyro / bon fidalgo e verdadeyro gran / caçador e monteyro Here lies Jan Feijoo, squire, a good nobleman and a true great hunter and ranger ==== Related terms ==== Escudeiro Escudeiros escudo === References === “escudeyro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012. Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “escudeiro”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escudeiro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escudeiro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega == Portuguese == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese escudeiro, escudeyro, from Late Latin scūtārius, from Latin scūtum. By surface analysis, escudo +‎ -eiro. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: es‧cu‧dei‧ro === Noun === escudeiro m (plural escudeiros, feminine escudeira, feminine plural escudeiras) squire (armour-bearer who attends a knight) ==== Related terms ==== escudo === Further reading === “escudeiro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “escudeiro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026